The strategic gathering for ministers, CEOs and capital allocators shaping Canada’s next decade of energy.
Canada's first LNG cargo departed Kitimat and changed everything. Three decades of debate gave way to operation, and the question shifted from whether Canada would participate in the global gas trade to how fast, at what scale, and on whose terms.
Canada Gas & LNG Exhibition and Conference 2027 is where those decisions get made.
Seizing Canada’s Export Moment
One departure from Kitimat closed thirty years of debate. One closed strait changed the terms. The Hormuz disruption removed 20% of global LNG supply overnight. Canada enters 2027 with its first export facility operating, a project pipeline approaching FID, and the strongest buyer urgency in a generation. Canada's window is open but not permanent. US Gulf Coast capacity is expanding. Qatar will recover. The buyers, capital, and EPC capacity Canada needs are being allocated right now to projects that are ready. Can Canada move at the speed the moment requires?
What Asia and Europe Actually Want from Canadian LNG
Nearly 90% of LNG transiting the Strait of Hormuz was bound for Asian markets. The disruption exposed a concentration of supply risk buyers had long acknowledged and done too little to address. Canada has responded: a 20-year deal with Germany's SEFE, binding offtake signed with TotalEnergies and Shell, active procurement discussions across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and India. But urgency is not a contract. This theme puts buyers at the front of the programme and asks what Canadian LNG must deliver on price, carbon intensity, and supply reliability to hold their attention past the current crisis.
The Projects that Define the Decade
For the first time in Canada's LNG history, multiple projects are advancing toward FID simultaneously and the global demand signal has never been stronger. But simultaneity is the challenge as much as the opportunity. EPC contractors, skilled labour, infrastructure capacity, and project finance are finite. The sequencing, contracting, and capital allocation decisions being made right now will determine which projects lead the decade and which ones wait for the next window. Momentum is not execution. This theme examines what it actually takes to move from pipeline to cargoes.
The Infrastructure Behind the Export Economy
Liquefaction capacity means nothing without the supply chain to fill it and the corridors to move it. Pipeline commercial terms remain an outstanding item on the Phase 2 FID path. The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line is under construction. The Ridley Island Energy Export Facility opens this year. And the Hormuz closure has repriced route risk across the entire global LNG trade, making Canada's direct Pacific access a structural commercial advantage for the first time. This theme examines what must be built on land and on water to match Canada's export ambitions at scale.
Getting Projects Done Right
Cedar LNG, the world's first Indigenous majority-owned LNG facility, is at peak construction. Ksi Lisims is being advanced by the Nisga'a Nation alongside its industry partners. These are equity ownership structures, not consultation outcomes. At the same time, the Haida Nation's formal opposition to Ksi Lisims is a reminder that partnership must be earned project by project. Canada's credibility as a stable, socially licensed supplier, the quality that differentiates it most clearly from Qatar, Russia, and the US Gulf Coast, depends on getting this right at scale, not just on the projects that have already succeeded.
Decarbonization, Emissions Performance, and the Low-Carbon LNG Advantage
Woodfibre, Cedar, and Ksi Lisims will all electrify compression using hydroelectricity, among the first LNG facilities in the world built to this standard. The emissions advantage is real and measurable. But BC no longer requires these projects to be net-zero by 2030, only net-zero ready, a retreat that creates tension between Canada's clean-edge positioning and the bar it is actually setting. As buyers embed carbon intensity criteria into contracts and financiers apply ESG screens to capital, this theme asks how Canada quantifies, certifies, and defends an advantage that is becoming a procurement requirement.
Two years ago, Canada had never shipped an LNG cargo. It has now shipped over 100. The Hormuz closure opened the window for Canada to play a central role in global energy security. Phase 2 is approaching FID. The buyers are here. The capital is available. The people who will determine what happens next are in this room.
Canada Gas & LNG 2027 brings together the decision-makers financing, building, supplying and buying Canada’s next phase of gas and LNG growth.
